i hope russ feingold is right. >> a new ad shows walker leading barrett by two points russ feingold thinkss going to win this thing. the money is 25-1. wisconsinites have to be the most informed voters in america to beat this kind of money. what do you think? >> well, i think that all that money has not lifted scott walker above 50% in the polls at any point. and so i don't think that it's going to make the difference in >> joan, respond to that. i mean i've been told that wisconsin is one of the cleanest states in america when it comes to issues at the polls. >> it absolutely has been. it's always had progressive voter laws, same day registration. you can walk up and vote. people trusted one another. i'm really offended on behalf of the people of wisconsin that th rnc chairman has so little respect from them. i'm from kenosha so i know there is voter fraud, what the hell is he saying? that disparages his own state. you set that up with the great segment on florida. this is what they want to do. opey, minorities. eyeo like maybe 2% voter fraud. that is ridiculous. that is like 40,000 votes

ru russ feingold thinks barrett is going to win this thing. the smoney is 25-1.consinites have to be the most informed voters in america to beat this kind of money. what do you think? >> well, i think that all that money has not lifted scott walker above 50% in the polls at any point. and so i don't think that it's going to make the difference in these last few days. i think finally there is parody. so you seeanter walker ads and pro walker ads. it really about the grassroots and getting people to the polls and that's why we hear all the whispers about voter fraud because, you know, there is an effort to suppress the vote. we're looking at the government accountability board in wisconsin predicting presidential level turnout. there is huge early voting going on now. 65% of voter turnout projecting. that's what it's all about. who gets their people to the polls. >> rnc chair is alleging voter fraud. he's very concerned about that. now here he is on a conference call with reporters yesterday. >> i'm always concerned about voter fraud, you know, being from ken osha

that's why progressives united and i feel this way. >> that is russ feingold.'t hours after he was chosen as one of the coach is a president of in his reelection campaign. andy kroll, talk about this. i mean, often the corporate media just expresses the range of debate between the republicans and democrats, and often that debate is almost nil. we are in election year. in may, a little more because president obama is so far behind in raising money that they may start to raise this issue, but they're going after the same money trough. they're picking the same pockets as the republicans. so it's unlikely the democrats are going to be raising this issue and going after the super pacs. can you please talk about that? >> the obama campaign is in a weird place right now. and their attempts to court big donors, for instance, for the priorities usa action super pac, which is a strictly pro-obama super pac, is in a very difficult spot. in 2008, president obama said, "no, we don't want any outside help. we don't want any loss of political groups spending money independent

just so you already mentioned what the polls are showing but we had former senator russ feingold in town today campaigning for mayor barrett he says he thinks the mayor is going to win both sides say this is going to be very close and that turnout is going to be the number one factor in this election kristie thank you very much for keeping us informed on this very important election over there in wisconsin that was our t.v. correspondent christine for south. but with mitt romney's nomination effectively secured ron paul's career appears to be winding down but many of his young supporters are pressing forward to achieve what they call the ron paul revolution and at the forefront of this movement is john ramsey has a twenty one year old texas millionaire and he's putting his money over a million dollars of it toward a super pac to back so-called liberty candidates now these are candidates that stand behind all things libertarian small government civil liberties and an interventionist stance well the creators of the super pac liberty for all joined us earlier to talk about their mission fou

. >> cenk: russ feingold believes barrett is going to win because more people are motivated on the democratice and voter turnout is critical. clinton seems to have done a very good job on friday although they're at a sunday razor tonight, but obama did nothing. is that, you know-- >> johnjohn bonjon bon jovi is having the fundraiser. barack obama did not take a stand when all those union protests were happening in the capitol. a lot of people are saying if obama comes in and it's a loss, it's bad for the president. i think wisconsin does not want him there as badly as he doesn't want to go. he does not want his record on the economy and his down poll numbers to resonate there, which is a very interesting political story. >> cenk: i don't know how it came out. we don't know whether they asked for president obama to show up and he didn't, or they told him not to come. it will be interesting. >>> another interesting point brought to us by david schuster. correspondent for current television. david, you broke the news with michael on "the young turks" about scott walker being a target of an inves

russ feingold predicted the mother of scandals in 2012 as a result of this election because you haveaires pumping money in the election and you have money moving around in these non-profit organizations and you have all these ways--the donor retreats and we don't know what karl rove and mitt romney are saying to each other and we won't know because it's secret. >> yeah, not that they even talk to each other. >> exactly. >> well, paul, andy mentioned john mccain. do you find it ironic that senator campaign reform is going to be there. >> it's ironic when john mccain is raising tons of money. as andy said, you know, we've seen reforms come after scandals and we've seen john mccain's return when he came back from a scandal back in the 80s. it's not a big surprise to see him run for big money. he ran for president and he raised similar amounts of money in his primary campaign. i think it would be interesting to see his conversation with sheldon adelson after he said that he's bringing in foreign money after bringing in billions of money from macaw in china. >> speaking of mr. adelson i w

but there is apparently great voter turnout here russ feingold believes that lep help put barrett over top. a tremendous amount of money has been spent 63 and a half million dollar of that amount, outside groups are a huge factor but when you look at just the candidates, scott walker has out-raced tom barrett 31 million to 4 million, all of this money, two-thirds of which poured in from out of state has gone to scott walker. but there are some people on the other side including the green bay packers. not all of them but some of them. i love these tweets they send out. to a girl who was a receiver for them and a tweet, finley is a tight end and on the football term. i am proud to be a union member, they say. sport whisk wisconsin workers and get out the vote on tuesday. look. it's an interesting point they make. with without collective bargaining, the nfl players wouldn't be able to get anywhere near the money and the benefits they get. any one player could be eliminated by the owners. they would get to keep all of the money. but when they collectively bargain, they are in a much better

go as russ feingold, tom barrett.ell, they're back and the democrats are energized in this state and they've had to put up with the siege of money coming in. there's no question the republicans own the air waves when it comes to the commercials and signage, but the democrats feel they have exhausted a great effort to get their people out and they're very confident. the last few weeks, the polls have gotten very, very close with the margin. to the point where both parties, we are told, have already contacted lawyers in case there is a recount and here in wisconsin, it has to be one-half of 1% of vote to trigger a recall by the constitution of wisconsin. so it's going to go down to the wire. it's about turnout. >> do you think bill clinton helped mayor barrett? >> there is no question. there's no question that bill clinton coming to milwaukee was exactly where he had to go. he had to go talk to those folks in milwaukee county and cut right to the chase on exactly what has happened in this state. lot of misinformation ab

they wanted people like herb kohl and russ feingold and they didn't get the president in -- >> listenself. what is the union doing picking the winners and the losers of the campaigns -- >> no, no [overlapping dialogue] >> they are under attack. >> they need to be under attack. >> what does big business do, they respond. they are responding. >> big business uses their own money. the unions take the money from their members? >> you were under fire a little while back? >> sure. >> sean: even though we disagree politically, i was on your side -- >> sean, you were. >> sean: right. you were very kind to me. >> you were like a brother. >> sean: i consider you a close friend. fisent out a -- if i sent out a tweet and said, support my friend juan. what would you say? >> i wouldn't be cool. >> sean: wait a minute. that's what obama did. he sent a tweet the day before. >> i don't think it was cool. but i tell you what, i notice romney's not in this. he has not stood up with scott walker and said, i'm your guy. you see nikki haley. -- but to have -- >> wait, wait, wait. >> we are going to -- [ove

in the state of wisconsin, you have mark neumann, a former member of the house who almost beat russ feingold back in 1998, you have the speaker of the assembly who was at the forefront of helping push a reforms through and did very well among the grass roots as a convention, and the business person is trying to replicate some of what ron washington -- what ron johnson did four years ago. if anything, it is good that the winner that comes out of that election will be that much stronger. whoever is the winner will fit very nicely right into it. >> [unintelligible] what are some things he should speak out more strongly about, and if he is going to win wisconsin, he will have to get some of those people who voted for obama last time. what is the best way to do that? >> i had voters who would come up to me and say i voted for your opponent four years ago, but i am voting for you. i had a guy the other day in oshkosh to said i am a democrat and my parents are democrats, but we voted for you. it of -- voters would tell me those stories and with that i appreciate the fact that you had the courage to

in my opinion, if russ feingold would have won. >> bear set a good guy and a decent candidate but whenson you put the most attention on, they automatically get somewhere in the order of a 2% bump because of name recognition. it should have been you know, barrett-focused in the entire campaign. unfortunately, it was the vitriol against walker with i is the driving force. you have a portion of the voters who will go oh i guess walker is the guy. that's the name i know. >> stephanie: john in jersey you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: hi, my name is john. what we should learn from this election, these three things, gotta control the message. we didn't keep the message of how to go after walker. our eyes were off the prize. it gave a lot of the tea bagger parts and parts of the walker -- otherwise, i call them koch bitches. >> he loves me at tea bagger parts. >> i think i disagree with him. >> about? >> i don't think we took our eye off the ball. i think our eye was firmly op the ball. we got outspent. i disagree with him. >> stephanie: jeanie. hello, jeanie. >> caller: hi, ev

in 2010, russ feingold was running for re-election in a campaign that he ultimately would lose.f visits and the first lady made a visit and fundraising visit and hillary clinton made a visit. nothing of that happened this time around. >> thank you so much for that update. today's recall isn't the first one in wisconsin. last august, eight republicans faced a recall vote for their own political lives including our next guest. >> joining us now is wisconsin's state senator alberta darling, successfully defended her own seat just 10 months ago. good morning to you, alberta. >> good morning, gretchen. >> so you have a sense of exactly what's going on today for governor scott walker and his lieutenant governor? >> indeed i do. this is a historic day for wisconsin. you just heard mayor barrett talking about the middle class and the opportunity and the dreams for the middle class. that's exactly what we did. we didn't kick the can down to the -- our kids and our grandkids. we took care of a $3.6 billion deficit and didn't raise taxes. we're on the right track. we are growing jobs in wi